Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-03-04
NEARING THE CLOSE.
NO ARGUMENT REACHED ON THE
FISHERY BILL.
senator Edmunds's Report Success of the
River and Harbor Bill Assured-Less
than S1O,OOO,OOO Appropriated
Recorder of Deeds Nominated.

WAsHINGTON, Feb. 2S.-ln the Senate
the following House bills were taken up
and passed. To prevent employment of con.
Wet or alien labor upon public buildings
or public works or in preparation of ma
terial for public buildings or public works,
the bill to provide for the adjustment of
land grants heretofore male by Congress
and remaining unadjusted The pleuro-
pneumonia bill was taken up and Dawes's
motion to reconsider the vote by which
Mr.. Edmunds's substitute was last week
adopted was carried and the substitute was
then rejected and the original bill passed.
This bill authorizes the president to
appoint board of three cattle commits
SionerS to be design rated "the United
States commission" The salary of the
commissioners is to be $1,000 a year. The
commissioners are authorized, in person
or by agents, to enter any premises, in
Guiding stock yards cars and vessels, in
which they have reason TO believe that any
contagious disease exists and to make in
vestigation in regard to the same. Upon
discovery of such disease they are to give
notice by publication in the newspapers
of its existence and of the locality, and to
notify the officials or agents, and they are
to establish and maintain a quarantine
and to cause the animals to be destroyed,
and pay to owners of those that were
diseased three-fourths of their apprai, ed
value, and to the owners of those only eX-
posed their full appraised value, the
amount not to exceed Sl6O in case of Il
pedigreed animal, nor $50 in other cases
Penalties are provided against attempts
to evade or obstruct its execution. A
secretary to the board with salary of
$1,000 is to be appointed by the president.
Mr.. Edmunds, from the conference COM
mittee on the bill respecting fisheries,
i 4.
existing in the conference and which pre-
vented agreement. The irreconciliable
point of difference between the conterees
Is reported to be the instance of the House
managers to add to the scope of the Senate
bill the further provision that, in case of
injurious treatment to American vessels
in British North American waters, it shall
be within the competence of the president
to stop Intercourse absolutely, not only by
water but by land thus cutting off the
continuous movement of railway trains
from the British provinces to any part of
the United States, and in effect recipro-
cally from the United States to the British
Dominions The Senate managers had felt
1t to be their duty to decline to 90 to that
extent. 1t seemed clear to the Senate
managers, and was not controverted by
the House managers, that the things which
the president was authorized to do by the
Senate bill were not in derogatiOn of any
treaty right or of the peaceful intercourse
of the nations, but merely as a matter of
countervailing business regulations. The
result of the conference had been that the
House of Representatives through its
managers didsnot object to the Senate bills
but desired to add new and enlarged
provision to it while the Senate managers
were not willing to go to that extent. The
report is signed by the three Senate con
ferees-Senators Edmunds, Frye and
Morgan.
The House conferees on the bill to au-
thorize the president to protect and defend
the rights of American fishing vessels (the
fisheries retaliatory bib have prepared Il
statement which will be submitted to the
House at the earliest opportunity.
The success of the river and harbro ap-
preparation bill has been assured by tine
complete agreement of the conferees on
the points OF difference between the TWO
Houses The total appropriations made
by the bill agreed upon Is less than Sl0,-
100000.